Question

The role played by man in influencing nature

Answer 1

Nature is the whole of the physical world; it is also what exists outside of any human action. Man is in nature but he acts upon it, thereby emancipating himself of it. He is part and apart of nature. The human–nature relationship is the object, in western societies at least, of contradictory representations.
We know that the natural environment provides us with a wide range of 'ecosystem services': all the things that people need and want that come from the natural world of which human beings are a part. We receive provisioning services (food, fibre, energy, drinking water, building materials, natural medicine).